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Alec Beanse is still using a Belling bedwarmer - a device consisting of two shallow metal domes joined together, heated by a 40-watt light bulb.

The man had recently taken to wife a freedwoman who had been the noble’s bedwarmer before the city fell.

It was not unknown for a widowed lord to keep a common girl as bedwarmer... but Lord Tytos soon began seating the woman beside him in the hall, showering her with gifts and honors, even asking her views on matters of state.